Edward A. Purcell

Legal hermeneutics : history, theory, and practice

Hermeneutics and the Rule of Law, Fred Dallmyr Law and Language, Gerald L. Bruns Ars Bablativa, Peter Goodrich The Americanization of Hermeneutics, James Farr Christian Praxis as Reflective Action, Jerry H. Stone Constitutional Interpretation and Conceptual Change, Terence Ball From the Lighthouse, Drucilla Cornell Intentions and the Law, David Couzens Hoy Intention, Identity, and the Constitution, Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels Legal Indeterminacy and Legitimacy, Ken Kress How Trial Judges Talk, Lief H. Carter Why Constitutional Theory Matters to Constitutional Practice (And Vice Versa), Michael J. Perry Legal Education and the Public Life, Gregory Leyh Play of Surfaces, Stanley Fish

Understanding Curtiss-Wright

The most striking feature of the Supreme Courts decision in United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. is its language asserting an independent and exclusive executive foreign affairs power. As “the sole organ of the federal government in the field of foreign relations,” the Court declared, the executive holds “very delicate, plenary and exclusive power” that “does not require as a basis for its exercise an act of Congress.” From the day the case was decided, it has stood as a preeminent authority for those who would magnify the constitutional role of the president by proclaiming the independent and unchecked nature of the executives foreign affairs power.